FILE - In this June 12, 1962, file photo, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is shown the day three prisoners escaped. The men crawled through holes they’d cut in their cell walls, climbed to the roof and left ... more >

NEW YORK (AP) - Two convicted killers used power tools to cut through steel walls, pipes and bricks to escape from a maximum-security prison in a “Shawshank Redemption”-style breakout. Here’s a look at some high-profile prison escapes in modern U.S. history.

- July 2009, from a prison in Michigan City, Indiana. Three inmates left through tunnels under the prison yard. All were captured within days.

- August 2008, from the Curry County Adult Detention Center in New Mexico. Eight inmates made it to freedom by climbing prison pipes inside a wall, then using homemade instruments to slice a hole in the roof. All were caught, including one taken into custody four years later.

- August 2008, from Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana. A female inmate escaped with the help of a prison guard who was promised $15,000 in return. She remained on the run for four months.

- July 2003, from the Elmira Correctional Facility in New York. Before escaping, two convicted murderers spent a month chiseling a hole through the concrete ceiling of their cell with a sledgehammer head and other shop tools. They made dummies with papier mache heads sporting their own clipped hair, which they left in their bunks that night. Both were later captured.

- December 2000, from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum security prison in Kenedy, Texas, near San Antonio. A group later dubbed The Texas Seven overpowered prison staff, taking their clothes and cash. They drove off in a maintenance truck, committing more crimes while on the run. Six were captured and sentenced to death; one killed himself before authorities closed in.

- January 1997, from a maximum security prison in Pittsburgh. Six prisoners escaped from a lockup that was considered “escape-proof,” tunneling their way out using a jackhammer and other prison-issue power tools, along with blueprints of the building. The men apparently used tools used by inmates working on a steam-pipe installation project. All were later caught.

- May 1984, from Mecklenburg Correctional Center in Virginia. Six death-row inmates overpowered inattentive guards and bluffed their way out by saying they had a bomb. All six were caught, returned to prison and executed.

- June 1962, from Alcatraz, an island off San Francisco. Three men crawled through holes they’d cut in their cell walls, climbed to the roof and left on a raft fashioned from prison raincoats and rubber cement. They were never found; officials surmised they may have drowned before reaching shore.

- April 1941, from what was then called Sing Sing prison, in New York. Three inmates made their getaway after killing a guard and a police officer. One was killed; the other two surrendered after seven hours.

- January 1934, from Crown Point County Jail, Indiana. John Dillinger, the most-wanted man in the country, used a wooden prop gun supplied by his attorney to corner two guards who released him. He drove away in a sheriff’s car. Dillinger was shot to death outside a Chicago movie theater by federal agents.

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This story has been corrected to show three, not four, men escaped from Alcatraz in June 1962.